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Editorial – November 2017

By Wah Keung Chan on 1 November 2017 Art Song, Arts Industry, Opera, Violin

Download PDFWelcome to the new La Scena Musicale in full evolution! You hold in your hands your magazine in a new all-colour, all-glossy format. It’s a key step in elevating our magazine to the rank of a high-end publication, worthy of the prestige and reputation that La Scena has garnered over its 21-year history. Stéphane Pilon of the University of Montreal provoked the idea in the summer of 2016. He admitted that he found the newsprint of La Scena’s first 21 years to be rather dingy, making the magazine appear cheap rather than matching its prestige. We looked at the…

Esprit Orchestra Marks Ontario’s 150th Anniversary

By Newswire on 31 October 2017 Canadian Music, Classical Music, Opera, Vocal

Esprit Orchestra Marks Ontario’s 150th Anniversary with Expanded Music Education Program Esprit has expanded its annual education and outreach programming in major ways for the 2017/18 season. The cornerstone project this season will be Ontario Resonance, a free student mentorship program to mark the 150th Anniversary of Ontario. Running from September to November, the program focuses on the creation of new music by students with the theme of Ontario places, sounds, and cultural ties. Professional composers mentor students in six schools in the GTA region, providing them with hands-on performance and composition opportunities. The program incorporates multiple artistic disciplines, and…

Royal Opera House’s la Bohème screens in major us markets

By Newswire on 30 October 2017 Newswire, Opera, Vocal

ROYAL OPERA HOUSE’S LA BOHÈME SCREENS IN MAJOR US MARKETS ON NOVEMBER 1 The Royal Opera House’s 2017/2018 Cinema Series continues with director Richard Jones’ acclaimed new production of Puccini’s La bohème. The screening will run in major markets on Wednesday, November 1, including: New York City, Philadelphia, Dallas, Denver, Washington DC, San Francisco, St. Louis, Baltimore, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, and Albany, among other cities. Cinemagoers can also find screenings near them at the following link: https://www.roh.org.uk/cinemas The production is conducted by Antonio Pappano. The cast features Mariusz Kwiecień as Marcello, US-born tenor Michael Fabiano as Rodolfo, Luca Tittoto as Colline, Florian Sempey as Schaunard, Jeremy…

Lebrecht Weekly: George Martin: Film scores and orchestral music

By Norman Lebrecht on 27 October 2017 CD and Book Reviews, Contemporary, Lebrecht Weekly

George Martin: Film scores and orchestral music (Atlas Realisations/Pias Classics) How good a musician was the Beatles’ producer? I talked to George Martin three or four times and, while I found him very likeable, was unimpressed by his musical curiosity. Like many other producers I knew at Abbey Road, he was a purposeful fixer who knew what needed to be done to make a track work and which of London’s hundreds of freelancers he had to call in to patch up a session that, somehow, lacked the finishing touch. String quartet for ‘Yesterday’, piccolo trumpet for ‘Penny Lane’, George Martin…

Alcée Chriss Wins 2017 Canadian International Organ Competition

By Xenia Hanusiak on 22 October 2017 Classical Music, Education, Music Competition

Twenty-five year old Texas-born Alcée Chriss wins the 2017 Canadian International Organ Competition (CIOC) held in Montréal this month. He is a seasoned competitor having conquered the Fort Wayne Organ and the Miami International Organ Competitions and second places at the Longwood Gardens and the Arthur Poister Scholarship competitions. Chriss says his most elated moment in the CIOC came when he played the last note of his program. Performing in the dead of the night, Chriss was the final contestant to perform at Montreal’s Notre Dame Basilica. He followed five finalists who each performed forty-minute programs on an intense day…

Lebrecht Weekly – Leo Weiner: Five Divertimentos (Chandos)

By Norman Lebrecht on 21 October 2017 CD and Book Reviews, Contemporary, Lebrecht Weekly, Orchestral

Leo Weiner: Five Divertimentos (Chandos) It was George Solti who first mentioned Weiner to me as his most sympathetic teacher in Budapest, an astute encourager of musical temperament. Solti returned to Weiner in what would be the last recording of his life, an affectionate account of the 1906 f-minor Serenade, perhaps Weiner’s trademark work though scarcely known beyond Hungarian borders. This new account by Neeme Järvi and the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra is strikingly fresh and virtuosic – just wallow in that sumptuous third-movement clarinet – less relaxed than Solti’s and altogether more together. The rhythms might sound a shade…

Contract extension of general director Alexander Neef

By Newswire on 16 October 2017 Classical Music, Newswire, Toronto

CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY ANNOUNCES CONTRACT EXTENSION OF GENERAL DIRECTOR ALEXANDER NEEF AT ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING COC Posts Modest Surplus and Record-Breaking Fundraising High for 2016/2017 Season Toronto – Canadian Opera Company General Director Alexander Neef has signed a new contract with the COC that extends his tenure as General Director through the 2025/2026 season. The extension of Neef’s contract was announced today at the COC’s Annual General Meeting by COC Board Chair Colleen Sexsmith as was the official financial report for the company’s last fiscal year. The COC, for the third consecutive year, posted a modest surplus of $11,000 for…

Lebrecht Weekly: Daniil Trifonov: Chopin Evocations (DG)

By Norman Lebrecht on 13 October 2017 CD and Book Reviews, Lebrecht Weekly, Piano, Romantic

Daniil Trifonov: Chopin Evocations (DG) FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 (Arr. By Mikhail Pletnev), Variations on “Là ci darem la mano” Works by Barber, Grieg, Mompou, Schumann, Tchaikovsky, Daniil Trifonov, piano; Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev, conductor 2 CDs, 0289 479 7518 2 The 2011 Tchaikovsky winner has lost none of his capacity to surprise. Daniil Trifonov thinks nothing of coming on stage with one wrist in a bandage, no explanation offered, or of asking the audience not to applaud at any time through a 90-minute recital. His powers of concentration are phenomenal and he expects no less from his listeners.…

Zhan Hong Xiao

By Olivier Gentil on 12 October 2017 Classical, Interviews, Piano

Zhan Hong Xiao On Radio-Canada’s Virtuose By Olivier Gentil “For me, music is the highest form of communication, the highest form of language.” This 17-year-old piano prodigy came to Quebec’s attention when he appeared on Radio-Canada’s Virtuose, broadcast last spring and hosted by Gregory Charles. At the end of the show he played the fourth movement of the Piano Concerto in E flat by Liszt. “I only entered by chance, because my prof told me about it,” he recalls. “I was surprised to be selected!” And he doesn’t regret it in the least. “There was nothing to worry about, it…

Yekwon Sunwoo

By Xenia Hanusiak on 12 October 2017 Classical Music

Yekwon Sunwoo: Portrait of a Gold Medalist, Fifteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition by Xenia Hanusiak They say that fortune favours the brave, and one hopes this will prove true for 28-year-old South Korean pianist Yekwon Sunwoo, the Gold Medalist of the 2017 Fifteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition held in Fort Worth last June. As one part of his prize, Sunwoo’s tour of honour includes sixty-seven concerts in an uninterrupted zigzag to the north, south, east and west, across four continents in one year. The arithmetic of this marathon of solo recitals, concerti, and chamber music concerts is simple…

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